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Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup
From: |
Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:19:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
>> If a first year student of mine cannot distinguish
>> data and code (s)he'd get an F grade. customize does
>> that.
>
> How lucky that John McCarthy was not your student...
>
> No offence, just could not resist a (maybe lame)
> joke. I agree that the distinction may be important.
> My logic professor used to say: "What does it mean
> that a mathematician *identifies* two things? It
> means, first of all, that he *distinguishes* them."
> Maybe it's similar here.
I don't think it is so much a matter of principle or
even attitude. It is just what happens. I have not seen
that particular example first hand but it makes sense -
though I'm perhaps surprised at the impact of Emacs on
today's students :) Serious, put it this way: if one
wants to be a programmer, easy: *act* like a
programmer, and then just add *volume* (time). Lot's of
guys underestimate this. Mounting an USB-mp3-player,
using avconv to extract the sound from a YouTube video
(which you downloaded with youtube-dl), then splitting
the file with mp3splt, copying the files, and
unmounting the device - they don't want to do that,
because it is "trivial", "too easy", they don't have
the "time", so why don't use their iPods instead?
Right? *Wrong*!
--
underground experts united:
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
- In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], (continued)
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Phillip Lord, 2014/01/15
- RE: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Drew Adams, 2014/01/15
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Phillip Lord, 2014/01/16
- RE: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Drew Adams, 2014/01/16
- Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup, Emanuel Berg, 2014/01/14
- Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup, Marcin Borkowski, 2014/01/14
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- Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup, Rusi, 2014/01/14
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- Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup,
Emanuel Berg <=
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- Re: Trying to right-align my window on startup, Rusi, 2014/01/14
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- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Rusi, 2014/01/17
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Emanuel Berg, 2014/01/17
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Rusi, 2014/01/18
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- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Christoph Wedler, 2014/01/28
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Emanuel Berg, 2014/01/28
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Phillip Lord, 2014/01/29
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/29
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Phillip Lord, 2014/01/29
- Re: In defense of Customize [was: Trying to right-align my window on startup], Stefan Monnier, 2014/01/29